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    The Eurasian woodcock (Scolopax rusticola) is a medium-small wading bird found in temperate and subarctic Eurasia. It has cryptic camouflage to suit its...
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    name is Latin for a snipe or woodcock. The type species is the Eurasian woodcock (Scolopax rusticola). Only two woodcocks are widespread, the others being...
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    display flight like the Eurasian woodcock, but the calls are different.[citation needed] It is smaller than Eurasian woodcock, and has much darker plumage...
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    genus name is Latin for a snipe or woodcock. The type species is the Eurasian woodcock (Scolopax rusticola). Woodcocks inhabit forested and mixed...
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  • Sulawesi woodcock (Scolopax celebensis) also known as Celebes woodcock, is a medium-sized wader. It is larger and darker than Eurasian woodcock but with...
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    The Eurasian curlew or common curlew (Numenius arquata) is a very large wader in the family Scolopacidae. It is one of the most widespread of the curlews...
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    The Amami woodcock (Scolopax mira) is a medium-sized wader. It is slightly larger and longer-legged than Eurasian woodcock, and may be conspecific. This...
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    The Eurasian or common whimbrel (Numenius phaeopus), also known as the white-rumped whimbrel in North America, is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae...
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  • collected on Luzon in the 1960s, these were originally misidentified as Eurasian woodcock specimens. It was not until the bird was heard calling in 1993, and...
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    the UK, with the term "cocker" deriving from their use to hunt the Eurasian woodcock. When the breed was brought to the United States, it was bred to a...
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    Canada goose and pink-footed goose Wood pigeon Cuckoo Eurasian woodcock Common snipe Rabbit Eurasian golden plover Corncrake Capercaillie are not currently...
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    bills and mottled brown plumage. The English name is imitative of the Eurasian curlew's call, but may have been influenced by the Old French corliu, "messenger"...
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    The Moluccan woodcock (Scolopax rochussenii), also known as the Obi woodcock, is a lowland wader endemic to Indonesia. Its distribution is restricted...
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    many hosts include the common moorhen, Eurasian woodcock, grouse, European robin, goldcrest, willow tit, Eurasian treecreeper and blackbirds. "Dasypsyllus...
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    Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760. The name gallinago is Neo-Latin for a woodcock or snipe from Latin gallina, "hen" and the suffix -ago, "resembling". Two...
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    mainly includes many species known as sandpipers, but also others such as woodcocks, curlews and snipes. The majority of these species eat small invertebrates...
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    one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. In the Nukumanu language of the Nukumanu...
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  • Thumbnail for Jack snipe
    Features such as its sternum make it quite distinct from other snipes or woodcocks. The common name has been said to come from the Welsh word for a snipe...
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    The common redshank or simply redshank (Tringa totanus) is a Eurasian wader in the large family Scolopacidae. The common redshank was formally described...
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    one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. Wintering adult near Hodal, Faridabad...
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    (Vieillot, 1819) (A) Jack snipe, Lymnocryptes minimus (BrĂ¼nnich, 1764) Eurasian woodcock, Scolopax rusticola Linnaeus, 1758 Great snipe, Gallinago media (Latham...
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    one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.[citation needed] In 2024, T. nebularia...
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  • Thumbnail for Eurasian sparrowhawk
    The Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus), also known as the northern sparrowhawk or simply the sparrowhawk, is a small bird of prey in the family Accipitridae...
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    (S. mira) Moluccan woodcock (S. rochussenii) New Guinea woodcock (S. rosenbergii) Eurasian woodcock (S. rusticola) Javan woodcock (S. saturata) Coenocorypha...
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    Scolopax media. The name of the current genus Gallinago is Neo-Latin for a woodcock or snipe from Latin gallina, "hen" and the suffix -ago, "resembling". The...
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    one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. Foraging Ystad, Sweden Adult in breeding...
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  • Thumbnail for Wilson's snipe
    small, stocky shorebird. The generic name Gallinago is Neo-Latin for a woodcock or snipe from Latin gallina, "hen" and the suffix -ago, "resembling". The...
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    one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. In New Zealand the species is protected...
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    one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies. BirdLife International (2017). "Calidris...
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    as the type species. The scientific name gallinago is Neo-Latin for a woodcock or snipe from Latin gallina, "hen" and the suffix -ago, "resembling". The...
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